"It's the friends I would've never expected," says Cai: "high-functioning, wonderful, successful people." "As a kid," explains Cai, now 33, "I was taught 'the burnouts do that, and if you do you're not going to be a good part of society.'" Emily Atkin, a friend of mine and author of the climate crisis newsletter Heated, gauges the shift in public sentiment around smoking based on people's reactions to her electric blue tank top emblazoned with the plea "PLS DO NOT GIVE ME A CIGARETTE NO MATTER WHAT I SAY." "It is by far my most attention-grabbing shirt," she told me
How Smoking and Nicotine Damage Your Body You probably know about the relationship between smoking and lung cancer, but did you know smoking is also linked to heart disease, stroke and other chronic diseases
This landscape provides a fertile ground for disruptive technologies that could redefine market dynamics
Taxing the latest types of tobacco products like e-cigarettes can be an important strategy to dissuade youth tobacco use and fund tobacco control and health education efforts
